Adventures in the kitchen and on the Big Green Egg

Dad’s Chili

What better way to get started than with a tried and true recipe of my Dad’s? Chili! Brandon usually starts asking for chili as soon as football season starts but I’m one of those people who just can’t do chili until it gets cold out – and in the South, who knows when that will be? Lucky for Brandon, it got chilly pretty early this year so I made a big pot of chili while he enjoyed Sunday NFL football.

And check out the special ingredient you add in the last 10 minutes of cooking…who’d of thought?

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Thanks Melissa! I need to take a new photo of it – the one I have up is pretty bad! Sometimes I substitute black beans for 1 can of the kidney beans and add chopped green bell pepper to sneak in more veggies.